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* {{Parody}}: Of the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' franchise, naturally

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* {{Parody}}: Of the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' franchise, naturallynaturally.



* VagueAge: It's inconsistent whether the Neville expy, Syril Broadbottom attends Hogwash when Barry is an adult or was a student in his year. He either ha ls a son named after himself or was held back multiple decades.

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* VagueAge: It's inconsistent whether the Neville expy, Syril Broadbottom attends Hogwash when Barry is an adult or was a student in his year. He either ha ls has a son named after himself or was held back multiple decades.
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* AlliterationAndAdventurers: Nigel likes a FantasticFantasyIsMundane tabletop game called ''Accountants & Attorneys''.


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* FantasticFantasyIsMundane: Nigel plays a tabletop game called ''Accountants & Attorneys''.
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* EatDirtCheap: The Death-Eater equivalents, the Earth-Eaters get their name because they do this.

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* GoldenSnitch: Parodied, as catching it gives that team a zillion points and wins them the game, rendering every other aspect of the game completely meaningless.

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* GoldenSnitch: Parodied, as catching it the sneetch in Quiddit gives that team a zillion points and wins them the game, rendering every other aspect of the game completely meaningless.


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* MistakenForPedophile: With Barry turned back into a child, Ermine complains she gets strange looks off people when they're together in public.


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* DeathByCameo: Peeves the poltergeist appears briefly in the second book before Barry banishes him to Hell. Notably, he's actually called Peeves rather than having a [[ParodyNames Parody Name]].



* EquivalentExchange: The second book mentions this, where everyone has graduated and started families [[spoiler: (despite being effectively proven wrong by the final book)]]. It's only then that Barry learns that to summon something with magic is actually just teleportation, and it always comes from somewhere else. This coincidentally results in someone whose possessions always go missing on Barry's birthday, and wind up as his presents and food.

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* EarWorm: A teenage Barry tortured his aunt and uncle by making them hear dogs barking to the tune of ''Jingle Bells'' constantly.
* EquivalentExchange: The second book mentions this, where everyone has graduated and started families [[spoiler: (despite being effectively proven wrong by the final book)]]. It's only then that Barry learns learn that to summon every time a wizard summons something with magic is actually just teleportation, and it always comes teleported away from somewhere else. a muddled. This coincidentally results in someone whose possessions cake always go goes missing on Barry's birthday, and wind up as his presents and food.it's implied Barry conjures cars fairly often.



* KeepingTheHandicap: PlayedForLaughs in ''Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody''. The blacksmith Zed has, on several occasions, offered to make Barry a set of prosthetic zinc eyeballs to correct his vision problems. Barry always refuses on the grounds that Zed is crazy and it's a bloody stupid idea.
* LovecraftLite: The Luna Lovegood expy, Tuna Lovecraft has Cthulhu as a {{Familiar}}.



* KeepingTheHandicap: PlayedForLaughs in Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody. The blacksmith Zed has, on several occasions, offered to make Barry a set of prosthetic zinc eyeballs to correct his vision problems. Barry always refuses on the grounds that Zed is crazy and it's a bloody stupid idea. .


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* SelfDuplication: Barry and Lon do this to make enough duplicates of themselves to play a quiddit match.


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* SummonToHand: The first time Barry uses the C'Mere spell, it summons an object across the room like the accio spell from ''Harry Potter'' but later uses just cause items to be teleported.
* ToiletTeleportation: This series' equivalent to the port key is a magic chamberpot called a portal potty.
* TravellingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: In the second book, evaporating to other continents takes several hours while in ''Dead Horse'' Barry can use it to appear in other countries instantly.
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* ArtImitatesArt: Dali gives Barry a tiny statue of himself dressed as the Virgin Mary floating in a jar of his own urine. This seems to be a reference to ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ Piss Christ]]'' by Andres Serrano, a photograph of a crucifix floating in his urine.
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* BeardedBaby: Bumblemore is said to have been born with his beard which is said to be a sign of a powerful wizard.
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* BazaarOfTheBizarre: A Diagon Alley parody in London called Catty Corner is mentioned.


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* {{Muggles}}: Called Muddleds here.
* TheNudifier: One of the delinquent wizards in the class Ermine teaches, turns her top transparent with a spell.


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* ATrueStoryInMyUniverse;
** Here a franchise parodying ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' is based on a true story and lead to the existence of magic being exposed to the Muggle public.
** We meet Charlie from ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' who had a successful book and movie based on his adventure. Though the other characters and actors have different names.
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* ColorMeBlack: Barry once called into a TV show presented by a white supremacist and cast a spell to turn him black.
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* SignificantAnagram: Barry takes "an embarrassingly long time" to figure out that his favourite musician, Art L. Valumord is Lord Valumart.

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* {{Parody}}: Of the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' franchise, naturally.

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* {{Parody}}: Of the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' franchise, naturally.naturally
* KeepingTheHandicap: PlayedForLaughs in Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody. The blacksmith Zed has, on several occasions, offered to make Barry a set of prosthetic zinc eyeballs to correct his vision problems. Barry always refuses on the grounds that Zed is crazy and it's a bloody stupid idea. .
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* GoldenSnitch: Parodied, as catching it gives that team a zillion points,l and wins them the game, rendering every other aspect of the game completely meaningless.

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* GoldenSnitch: Parodied, as catching it gives that team a zillion points,l points and wins them the game, rendering every other aspect of the game completely meaningless.
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* GoldenSnitch: Parodied, as catching it gives that team a zillion points, rendering every other aspect of the game completely meaningless.

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* GoldenSnitch: Parodied, as catching it gives that team a zillion points, points,l and wins them the game, rendering every other aspect of the game completely meaningless.
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* UnmasquedWorld: The Barry Trotter books being released has exposed the existence of magic to the muddle public.
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* AfterlifeExpress: There's no trains in it but the afterlife hub in the third book looks like a train station.
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* GoKartingWithBowser: [[spoiler: Valumart]] attends Barrys birthday party, and is generally friendly towards him and other main characters, having abandoned his quest to [[spoiler: kill Barry]] in exchange for [[spoiler: building a media empire]].

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* GoKartingWithBowser: [[spoiler: Valumart]] attends Barrys Barry's birthday party, and is generally friendly towards him and other main characters, having abandoned his quest to [[spoiler: kill Barry]] in exchange for [[spoiler: building a media empire]].
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* YouFailBiologyForever: Lon living with [[spoiler: a hole in his head, clean through, and having part of a dogs brain implanted as substitute]]. But its a parody and... [[AWizardDidIt well]]...

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* YouFailBiologyForever: ArtisticLicenseBiology: Lon living with [[spoiler: a hole in his head, clean through, and having part of a dogs brain implanted as substitute]]. But its a parody and... [[AWizardDidIt well]]...
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* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhraseCharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: Each book, following the pattern of the series being parodied.
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* {{Parody}}

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* {{Parody}}{{Parody}}: Of the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' franchise, naturally.
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* PredatoryBusiness: As suggested by his name, much of Lord Valumart fits this trope by selling magical goods to the Muddle world.

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* PredatoryBusiness: As suggested by his name, much of Lord Valumart fits this trope by selling magical goods to the Muddle world.world.
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The first book in the series is ''Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody''. It follows [[JerkAss Barry Trotter]], Lon Measly and [[ApatheticTeacher Ermine Cringer]] as they do their best to stop the making of TheMovie of the series of books about Barry's school life, written in-universe by [[JKRowling J.G. Rollins]].

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The first book in the series is ''Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody''. It follows [[JerkAss Barry Trotter]], Lon Measly and [[ApatheticTeacher Ermine Cringer]] as they do their best to stop the making of TheMovie of the series of books about Barry's school life, written in-universe by [[JKRowling [[Creator/JKRowling J.G. Rollins]].
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Since the pothole has no context as to whether the trope (which has been misused a lot) fits or not and I\'m unfamiliar with this series, I\'m removing the pothole to be safe.


The first book in the series is ''Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody''. It follows [[JerkAss Barry Trotter]], [[AdultChild Lon Measly]] and [[ApatheticTeacher Ermine Cringer]] as they do their best to stop the making of TheMovie of the series of books about Barry's school life, written in-universe by [[JKRowling J.G. Rollins]].

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The first book in the series is ''Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody''. It follows [[JerkAss Barry Trotter]], [[AdultChild Lon Measly]] Measly and [[ApatheticTeacher Ermine Cringer]] as they do their best to stop the making of TheMovie of the series of books about Barry's school life, written in-universe by [[JKRowling J.G. Rollins]].
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Barry Trotter is a series of Harry Potter parodies written by Michael Gerber. The HarryPotter series are taken as a heavily censored version of the life of Barry Trotter. The story takes place long after the trio have "finished" their education at the [[SuckySchool Hogwash]] School of Wizardry and Witchcrap.

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Barry Trotter is a series of Harry Potter ''Literature/HarryPotter'' parodies written by Michael Gerber. The HarryPotter ''Harry Potter'' series are taken as a heavily censored version of the life of Barry Trotter. The story takes place long after the trio have "finished" their education at the [[SuckySchool Hogwash]] School of Wizardry and Witchcrap.


* {{Americanitis}}: Parodied wonderfully in "Barry Trotter and the Philosopher's Scone", where it is stated that in America, said scone was renamed "The Magic Biscuit".
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* VoldeMart: As suggested by his name, much of Lord Valumart fits this trope by selling magical goods to the Muddle world.

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* VoldeMart: PredatoryBusiness: As suggested by his name, much of Lord Valumart fits this trope by selling magical goods to the Muddle world.

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